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Study says to clean your sponge, microwave it

Thursday, January 25, 2007 Studies done on germs and bacteria performed by researchers at the University of Florida show that a dirty kitchen sponge can be cleaned and “sterilized” by microwaving it for 2 minutes, but researchers warn to wet the sponge first. “People often put their sponges and scrubbers in the dishwasher, but if […]

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13 die in two aircraft accidents in Russia

Sunday, July 29, 2007 Thirteen people have died in Russia after two accidents, one with an airplane and one with a helicopter. An Antonov An-12 cargo airplane crashed early Sunday morning in the Moscow airport Domodedovo, leaving no survivors. According to a spokesperson of the Ministry of Emergencies, the airplane “fell four kilometres (2.5 miles) […]

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Robot Zoe detects life in Atacama Desert

Friday, March 18, 2005Zoë, a four-wheeled robot constructed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, is the first rover-based system to discover life. Although the presence of life in the Chilean Atacama Desert is no surprise, Zoe is a step forward in an effort to design automated systems to find life on Mars. Zoë, named after the […]

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Two largest known prime numbers discovered just two weeks apart, one qualifies for $100k prize

Thursday, September 18, 2008 Two new records for the largest known prime number have been set, both breaking the 10 million digit threshold. On August 23, Edson Smith, a systems engineer for the Program in Computing laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles in California, United States, confirmed the primality of the number through […]

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